Animals
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Vocab potpourri
Just the facts
100
Animals that eat only other animals are called this
What is a carnivore (or secondary consumer)
100
Coniferous (evergreen) trees are the main plant of this biome.
What is Taiga (boreal, taiga or coniferous forest)?
100
Rain and snowfall is called this
What is precipitation?
100
This diagram shows the complex relationships between species in a biome
What is a food web?
200
Over 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies live in this biome.
What is the rainforest?
200
Grass and small shrubs dominate this biome region.
What is a grassland / savanna?
200
When too many creatures of one type live in the same biome
What is overpopulation
200
This is the bottom level of any food web.
What are plants (or producers)
300
This word describes the living parts of a biome.
What is biotic?
300
A saguaro cactus is one of the few plants that can survive the extremes of this region.
What is a desert?
300
The non-living parts of a biome are called this
What is abiotic.
300
This word describes how animals change as biomes change.
What is adaptation?
400
A gene that changes randomly in an animal and is passed on to its offspring.
What is a mutation?
400
This biome has about the same amount of rainfall as a desert
What is the tundra
400
The three main resources that all living creatures need.
What are food, water, and shelter?
400
The two main abiotic factors in an area that determines it's biome.
What is rainfall and temperature?
500
A buzzard or a crow eats dead animals. Creatures that eat dead animals are called this.
What is a scavenger?
500
The main biome of Ohio
What is temperate forest
500
Living things that rely on one another for existence.
What is interdependent?
500
25 degrees celsius is about this temperature in fahrenheit.
What is 80? (77)
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